Donald Trump says tax reform is economy’s ‘rocket fuel’

MIDDLETOWN, Pa. — President Trump promised an audience packed with truckers Wednesday that tax cuts will create jobs and raise wages, moving to blunt the chief criticism that the Republicans’ proposed tax reforms are a giveaway to the wealthy at the expense of the middle class.

The president went to the heart of a state that was key to his upset win in November to make the appeal to blue-collar workers and small business owners.“It will be rocket fuel for our economy,” he said on a stage surrounded by huge American flags in a hangar at an Air National Guard base just outside Harrisburg.Mr. Trump described the tax cuts as the centerpiece of his economic plan, which he said was already boosting the economy. Tax reform, he said, would kick the economy into overdrive.“Our country and our economy cannot take off like they should unless we transform America’s outdated, complex and extremely burdensome tax code,” he said. “It means more jobs, higher pay and lower taxes for middle-income families and American businesses of every size.”